Some moms puff, puff, pass while parentingNBC’s TODAY Show aired a segment about mothers who smoke
marijuana while parenting and featured expert Dr. Larissa Mooney,
director of the UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic.

New Edition of Staying in Touch Manual Now Available!

UCLA ISAP has collaborated with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the SAMHSA Grantee Data Technical Assistance (GDTA) team to publish Staying in Touch: A Fieldwork Manual of Tracking Procedures (Third Edition).

Staying in Touch is designed to assist SAMHSA-funded grantees to stay in touch with people receiving services and to meet GPRAMA reporting requirements. The manual includes information on numerous staying-in-touch, tracking, and locating procedures from the simple and inexpensive to the complex and costly.

If you are a current SAMHSA grantee or project officer, you can access Staying in Touch.

Coming soon – downloadable PDF of Staying in Touch for everyone on the SAMHSA website.
Watch this space for details!

ISAP, Egypt, and Camels…Oh My!

The 9th Kasr Al-Ainy Annual International Psychiatry Congress brought several ISAP researchers to Cairo, Egypt, in February 2016. Between the discussions about positive psychiatry, treatment strategies for adolescent substance use, psychiatric and addiction comorbidities, concepts of the cognitive behavioral therapy approach, and continuing UCLA’s training efforts with junior Egyptian psychiatrists, we had the privilege to ride camels in front of the amazing Giza pyramids.

From left to right are Rachel Castaneda and family, Jeff Annon, Christine Grella, Sherry Larkins and family, and Valerie Antonini and family. This photo does not include Karen Miotto, Al and Aaron Hasson, and Rick Rawson. All previously rode camels, apparently.